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port him. This alarmed him. and he went to
some OF his friends and declared that he, too,
was Knight OF Labor A member Of the
ORDER to ascertain the truth of the assertion
Robinson was not knight, that he had been
at one time, but had allowed his
membership to lapse This misrepresenta,
ton upon his part was the occasion of
mucn Indignation among the Knights, and
finally one OF his friends, a Greenbacker and also
hnlght wrote him that his defeat was newt
able unless he Immediately connected himself
with the order, which he did at the first oppor-
1unIty, ana by these insincere and fraudulent
pretenses obtained enough labor votes to secure
his election While here he seemed so afraid
tnaI ne would disclose his cloven political foot
ne was constantly comforting with his friends
20 the proprlety of his conduct He called at
f1sner Doherty's Office one afternoon, and, TAX
ing Mr' Doherty aside, said "John Lamb has a
meeting at Wingate tonight and he and his
friends have invited me to 60; do you think our
Greenoack friends would find fault with me if
snouid 60" 'Well Mr.. Robinson, +" said Doherty,
II you can say to the people there in your
speech that you are the candidate of the Green
PACK LABOR party: that you stand squarely upon
their platform, and as their standard bearer
Will stand or fall by their principles, that you
nave made no pledges to the Democrats party
ana mat they have asked none of you; if you can
say tEat L should go, otherwise l should not
After considering a moment he said II will 60"
and went.
!ne uoos truth OF the whole matter is this,
ana IL Is clearly proven by recent disclosures:
Inere was compact between Robinson and
Jonn Lamb. Lamb was a candidate for Con-
gress, and as the signs in the political skies
were ominons of disaster. he saw the necessity
OF securing the vote of the Greenback party
he went to his friend Robinson and said, If you
VIII Secure the nomination for joint Representa-
tive OF your party, and give me your party in
huence. will see tina. the Democrats-Not-
outstanding they have a large majority-will
bold no convention. but indorse you, there
by securing your election beyond peradventure
The susceptible Robinson doubtless agreed to
the programme, and promised to cast his for
tunes with the Democrats in the Legislature.
Is 1t not, therefore, plain to every honest man
that Robinson's pretended allegiance to the
Greenback and Labor party was sham and a
desuslonf He did what Lamb and other strik-
ers OF the party knew he would do; he betrayed
for paltry consideration those who had trusted
| him. and if he has any sensibilities left he is
now haunted with the ghosts and devils of vio-
lated and broken pledges of honor. The vic
TINS who knew him and trusted him in the past
will know him and trust him no more forever.
A SOLD Our KNIGHT.
CHARLOTTESVILLE IND Feb, 5.
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what To Be Done with the Surplus.


70 the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
In your issue of Yesterday Feb. u you had an
article on the Surplus, and what must be done
with it. If it is in order for citizens to make sug
gestions, beg leave to submit that portion OF
said troublesome wealth might proftably be
given to the men who saved our country and
made her what she is to-day.
If our representatives in Congress would COM
ply with all of the requests of the national pen
sion committee of the g. A. R., the surplus now
on hand would be provided for-perhaps more
and surely it would go to deserving class of
citizens, who are poor and who would at once
put it into circulation.
The country can we'll afford to be liberal with
her soldiers, especially at this time, when she
may need their help again soon, and how could
we expect the boys to respond promptly to a
for volunteers without some hope of future re-
ward and gratitude9
When John Sherman defeated the repeal Of
the arrearage limitation the country not
troubled with its wealth, and SO great an expen-
dture might shen have looked dangerous, but
now the surplus is actually on hand, and fast
increasing. and there is growing sentiment
that while we have the means, and before it is
otherwise disposed Of, full justice should be
melted out to our old soldiers l believe if you
could get an expression from the people, all of
them, 1t would favor this plan, because it would
benefit every body. Who can suggest better
way; who can suggest as goodl
BEDFORD, Feb g. A Son OF A VETERAN
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Name of Road.
Miscellaneous Notes.


1t can now be said that all the railroads in the
United States have adopted standard time.
The Chicago, Kansas City G. Nebraska,-the
Rock Islands extension-has completed plans
for a large passenger depot at Topeka. which
work will begin within 80 days.
The Winona. Chicago & ST Louis has COM
pleted connections with the Chicago, Burling-
ton 81 Northern at Marshland, and entered into
verbal agreement for interchange of traffic.
The Louisville e. Nashville Railroad Company
has purchased 200 acres of land near New Or
leans, on which it intends to build several
branch car shops, switch tracks, and numerous
other improvements.
There is a compromise bill on the subject of
Sunday railroad trains which is under consid-
Grafton in the Connecticut Legislature, under
Sunday between the hours Of A. NJ. and P. n.
is prohibited.
The Louisville, Evansville g. St Louis rail-
road has adopted d fourleafed clover for their
trademark. On zach leaf are respectively the
incorporate words louisville" "Evansyilie,'
''St Louis railroad, and in the center is the
nickname airline"
The Boston s. Providence railroad have four
German cast-steel thirty three-inch Bochuue
wheels that were put in use in April, 1873.
Each wheel has run 276,386 miles. They have
now been turned for the second time and pro.
vided with new axles. and will be put under q
locomotive tender again for further service
The Boston & Providence's Anticipated style OF
heating its passenger cars with one stove in the
center of the car has at last stirred up Rhode
Island patrons, who claim that the system is
dangerous, and have petitioned the Legislature
of that State for an act requiring some system
bls temperature may be secured throughout the
carS.n
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the American Express Company did not expire
until next July, and that even If the matter was
under consideration it was too early to talk
about it The agent of the American Express
Company said that he did not think the Bur-
lington was seriously considering the express
business. Raiiroading and express had never
succeeded very well under the same manage
ment. The Philadelphia & Reading road, after
thorough trial, was glad to give up the at
tempt.
Judge Burke, president of the Beel line, on
Saturday stated to reporter of the Cleveland
Leader that the board Of directors of the Mis-
souri, Central, elected at St. Louis on Tuesday
last, will meet in New York this week to organ
ize. Il expect" said Judge Burke, who is one
of the directors. that the Missouri Central will
prove to be very valuable connection of the
Decline Kansas City has become the distrlbut
ing point for an immense traffic in the South
west, and will be reached directly by the Bee
line through the Missouri Central 1t will also
receive large volume of business from this line
The Bee-lne will also be benefited by large
traffic between Chicago and the Southwest, Sc
curing haul between Litchfeld and ST. Louis. !"
He thought the Missouri Central would be COM
pleted during the present year. The bridge at
Alton will probably take year to complete but
work will be commenced and pushed all along
the line.
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Mild weather and bad country roads are be-
ginning to affect freight traffic. The train rec
ords show that last week there were $50 fewer
loaded cars received and forwarded at 1ndianap-
oils than in the week ending JAM 81, while there
were / 800 more loaded cars handled than in the
corresponding week 1886 and 965 fewer cars than
in the corresponding week 1885. In looking over
the train reports it is noticeable that the falling
off is almost entirely with the Western roads on
east-bonnd business in here, and with Eastern
lines in east-bound business out of Indianapolis.
The shipments of grain eastward have dropped
to a comparatively small tonnage. There is a
little grain going to interior points of New York
and New England, and some export business,
while west bound the tonnage has increased
handsomely the last few days, and present indi-
cations are that spring goods for the Western
and Southwestern markets are, from this on, to
come forward briskly, although 1t is a
couple of weeks earlier than u.s.
ual for shipments of this character to
commence so heavily. Railroad supplies and an
figure in the west bound freights cars are be-
coming more plenty. North-and- south roads are
doing good winter business: shipments of pro-
visions and of grain to Southern markets are
heavy, and, with the improvement In business
with the car works. there is heavy movement
of Southern pine lumber northward. Local bus
mess is good, but not as heavy rs last month.
This is not due to lack of freights, but owing
TO the Dad condltlon OF Inc country foddS, Wnlcn
for a few days past have rendered it almost i'm
possible for producers of the classes of freight
which usually move at this season of the year to
reach the country railway stations. So far as
grain is concerned, only that which is in eleva-
tors s,orehouses near the tracks can be load
ed; then it is equally unfavorable to the dstri-
button of merchandise shipped out. Below is
given the number of cars received and forwarded
at this point in the week ending Feb 5, 1887, and
a comparison of that week with the car-move
ment of the corresponding weeks of 1886 and Of
1885.
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Soldiers, Monument.

To tae Editor of The Indianapolis journal:
What greater monuments could be erected in
memory of the dead soldiers than to distribute
the surplus money in the United States Treas
ury among the various States to be used as hv-
ing monuments in the way of establishing read
ing-rooms and places Of social amusements for
the sons and daughters of soldiers and the grow
ing generation to keep the young men out Of
saloons and gambling dens? How many small
cities and towns have institutions of this kindl
In my opinion it would work wonders in few
years. A CITIZEN.
FRANKFORT, Feb 5.
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brakemen, only that their regular pay is $50 per
month. and their pay for extra running is q
cents per mile.
Railroad officials seem to be relieved that the
President has signed the interstate commerce
bill. The railroad companies will now doubtless
put their houses in order to comply with sucn
requirements of the act are ineligible and
practicable. There will be no ''kickng" no re-
bellion against the act by the sagacious railroad
managers. They will comply with the law
wherever possible, that a friendly public senti-
ment may be created toward them, and that no
friction will be caused in Congress when desira-
BILE amendments shall be proposed. Ali seem
anxious that competent men should be appointed
commissioners. Much too large a per cent of
the applicants for the position of Commissioner,
OF which there are to be FIVE, have been what
would be termed .'old chestnuts" in the railroad
service or 'broken down politicians"
The American Express Company has made ar
engagements to do the express business over the
Boston & Maine system of roads after March l.
The half dozen small fry companies now run
ming on the road are much disturbed over the
new deal General Manager Furber, OF the b.
g. NJ. endeavors to console them by stating that
the railroad has simply made the American
company it's agent in handling all the express
matter offered for transportation by local eX-
presses and others Instead of being compelled
to keep a complicated set of accounts with scores
of local expresses, the road will delegate this
work to the American company, which will rep
resent the road in all express dealings with the
pi,bic and with local tits distinctly pro-
yided by the agreement that change of rates
shall be made without the approval of the rail
road company.
There is a ru,nor that the c., B. & O. people
will on the Isl of July, when their contract
with the American Express Company expires,
commence doing their own express business.
A reporter OF the Chicago Journal called at the
general Offices of the Burlington to inquire
Abont the proposed express company. With the
usual ndefiniteness with which railroad men
wisely speak about their business, the officers
.uouid only state that the present contract with
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Real Estate Transfers.

Neai 1r8usIerS
Instruments filed for record in the recorders Office
of Marion county Indiana, for the twenvfour hours
ending P. NJ Feb. 5, 1887 as furnished by Ellott&
Butler abstracters of titles Room % 4Etna Building
Harry ]. Milligan and wife to Edward w.
Little, lots and and part of 2 and 3,
in square 4. in Fuller's second eastern
addition to Cumberland. $500. 90
Charlotte T. Mclaughlin and husband to
Sanford j. Evans, part OF lot 5, In
Mclaughlin Woodlawn addition to the
town of Southport 5OO.OO
Augusta E. House ct al. to Clara II. Neg
ley, part of the northeast quarter of the
Ship i6 north, range & east...... 100000
Franklin Taylor and wife to Susan Chris
tie. lot 90, in j. K Shapes Woodsde
addition to Indianapolis 1850
Catherine Maer and husband to Charles
Wagner part of the north half OF the
southwest quarter OF the northwest
quarter Of section 16, township Is
north. range east 500
Eli M. johnson to Frank H. Blackledge
ct al, part of lot 25 in Woodruff's sub
division of b. f. Morris's addition to
indianapolis S0O.OO
Frank H. Backledge ct al to Eli NJ.
johnson. lot SO, in AlvoYD& Co.'S sub
TO College Corner, in indianapolis i s 1000 90
Emma L. Mix and husband to Elizabeth
D. kelenberger ct al lot IS, in Ham
IL Dawson's re-subdivision of part of
block ID in Johnson's heiIs addition to
Martha P. Leman to Joseph E. Boswell,
lot 3. IL Reese, Cole a. Co.'s subdivis-
ion of A. E. Fletcher's fourth Brookside
addition TO Indianapolis. $4,000
Alva r. Shirley and wife to Asa G. Myers
| and wife. part of the east half of the
southeast quarter of section Is. town.
ship 16 north, range east; containing
| so acres -.--.--......-.---.-- $4,000
fert part of outlot IS in Indianapolis Is. 600 90
Conveyances IL; consideration. 1875 .315. 90
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SOME favor a tariff for revenue only and some
a tariff with Incidental protection. and some a
tariff for protection. per &c; but a large majority
favor the free use of Salvation Oil for cuts and
bruises.
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Superior Court.
Room 1-Hon. Napoleon 3. Taylor. Judge.
Evangeline Davis VS.. John W. Davis; divorce
Granted, and custody of children, on account of
cruel treatment
Matte Surface VS.. Milford G. Surface: divorce
Granted, and custody of children, on account Of
abandonment
NEW SUIT.
Chas Henry Rentsch ct al. Vs. Edward H. J.
Rentsch; complaint for construction of will
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Loaded LOADED Loaded.
Feb. 5, Feb. 8, Feb. z,
1887. 1886. 1885.
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Instruments filed for record in the recorders Office
of Marion county Indiana for the twenty-four hours
ending M, Feb. 5, 1887, furnished by Elliott
Butler abstracters of titles Room % Etna Building
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-09
ENGLAND'S POPULATION.
Facts OF Utmost Interest for tho sanitnri
m and SOCIOLOGICAL.

Facts OF Utmost Interest for tho sanitnri-
nm and SOCIOLOGICAL.
Having in his annual report on the
Parish of ST. Mary's, lslington, an
nounced that the death rate for 1887
was the smallest on record, DIR. Mcy-
mott Tidy discusses the meaning of the
facts relating to diminishing death
rates as affecting the population of En-
gland and Wales. The present popu-
lation may be set down at 24,OOO.O 900,
and the acreage of cultivated land at
ZOO, 600; there being thus one person
to 1.25 acres, or about onc-fourth the
quantity of land per head of the popu-
lation of Europe as a whole. But statis-
tics show that $50 people arc every
year added to every 10000. Remind
ing his readers that about twenty gen.
crations have passed since the Norman
Conquest, Dr. Tidy asks what will be
the result when twenty more genera
tons of Englishmen are numbered
among the dead; and he explains
that at the present rate of increase
there will then be population of
%, POO, 100000 who would require
place of abode of twenty carths If the
then population were no more dense
than the present one now Is. Tracing
the increase In population through its
various stages, the report points out
that In til, reign Of Henry VIII. the
population of England kept in check
by wars and pcstience, numbered more
than 100000 while in the early part
of the reign of George III. twas about
100000. Then came period of
commercial prosperity, and with this
the population of England went up
first 10 100000 or 1900, 900. and
then to 16,Oo0,0 900 at the period Of the
Corn Laws. At the present time a.
| 600, 900 have to be housed and fed i'm
England and Wales; and in face of this
fact we have to remember that cur en-
ports are things that can not be eaten.
whereas fifty per cent. of the food we
require comes from abroad. Mr.. Tidy
doubts the healthy condition of ma
ton that can not maintain itself, and
he regards the present increasing pop
ulation and decreasing trade us serious
facts for the sanitarian and sociologist
| London Lancet
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-09
Ancient Mexico.

When early in the 18th century the
Spaniards found their way to this part
Of the mainland of America, they
came in view Of nations cultivated
high above the level of those they had
hitherto met with in the New World.
Here were not rude and simple
tribes like the islanders of the Antil-
les, but nation with organized armies,
official administrators, courts of JUS
tice, high agriculture and mechanical
arts, and, what struck the white men
especially, stone buildings whose arch
itecture and sculpture were often of
dimensions and elaborateness to aston
ish the builders and sculptors of Eu-
rope. How population of millions
could inhabit world and whose very
existance had been till then unknown
to geographers and historians, and how
its nations could have reached so high
a grade of barbaric industry and gran.
deur was problem which naturally ex.
cited the liveliest curiosity of scholars.
E. Z. Hibling, of Maidstone, England,
says that Piso's Cure for Consumption
is the best medicine for inflammation
Of the chest and sore throat that he
ever used. He does not intend to be
without it.
Hernandez aud Acosta shared the
opinion of their time that the great
fossil bones found in Mexico were re-
mains of giants, and it was argued
that, as before the deluge there were
giants OH the earth, therefore Mexico
was peopled from the Old World in
antediluvian times.
On the other hand, the multitude
of American languages suggested that
the migration took place after the
building of the Tower of Babel, and
Siguenza arrived ut the curiously def
mite result that the Mexicans were
descended from Napthuhim, son of
Mizraim and grandson of Noah, who
left Egypt for Mexico shortly after
the confusion of tongues.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-02-09
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ray THOUSAND A YEAR.

ray THOUSAND A YEAR.
Imet fair mad
Aud to her said:
"oh will you for aye he my dcnri
know that with you
My wants will be few
Can VIC 1.-Two ON my thousand year,
"what fnther has done
The son should not snun-
IT'S easy TO do 'twoud appear,
For father has said
That when he was we'd,
He'd less than thousand year."
Indeed. sir" said she.
"Your wife will be.
but OF money pray don't let me hear;
care naught for ii,
And so ] submit:
We can live on your thousand a year."
Said to myself;
she cares nnu ght for pclf,
And SO II would seem to he cloar
That We lovers true
This triHe can do
Can live on my thousand year"
Expenses were great
beg leave to state,
Che cared puught for money" fear;
And ! OF m,sclf
Used lots OF our pelf-
We spent a tlrO thousand year.
I'll tell in my sony
just whore was wrong,
The renson would seem to bc hero:
MN father was poor,
ilrd never had moro
Than Just n nero thousand a year.
n nll in the life,
And ! and my wife
Hhd never had pov, ri, noar;
know thnt Ind we
Been brought up ms he
We'd have lived ON n thousand year.
-R0Iert 1hsicu. IL RtmbteT.
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